vii, 188 pages ; 25 cm

A critical overview of the work features the writings of Amin Malak, J. Brooks Bouson, Hilde Staels, and other scholars

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-176) and index

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale and the dystopian tradition / Amin Malak -- Nature and nurture in dystopia: The handmaid's tale / Roberta Rubenstein -- "Trust me": reading the romance plot in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Madonne Miner -- The misogyny of patriarchal culture in The handmaid's tale / J. Brooks Bouson -- Off the path to Grandma's house in The handmaid's tale / Sharon Rose Wilson -- "The missionary position": feminism and nationalism in Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / Sandra Tomc -- The handmaid's tale: dystopia and the paradoxes of power / Glenn Deer -- Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale: resistance through narrating / Hilde Staels -- Margaret Atwood's modest proposal: The handmaid's tale / Karen Stein -- What is real/reel? Margaret Atwood's "rearrangement of shapes on a flat surface," or narrative as collage / Marta Dvorak -- The handmaid's tale: "historical notes" and documentary subversion / Dominick M. Grace

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